Quimper

American

[kan-per] / kɛ̃ˈpɛr /

noun

a port in and the capital of Finistère, in NW France: noted for pottery manufacture.

Quimper British

/ kɛ̃pɛr /

noun

a city in NW France: capital of Finistère department. Pop: 63 238 (1999)

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The incident took place on Saturday evening in Saint-Herbot, a village near Quimper in Brittany.

From BBC

Blue Solutions's gigafactory operates in Ergué-Gabéric, near Quimper since 2013.

From Reuters

According to its Managing Director, Jean-Luc Monfort, in 2021, the company envisaged that both lines in Quimper and a line in Montreal would have a annual capacity of 1.5 GWh.

From Reuters

Hiking up the Quimper Summit Trail, then down via the Quimper Connector and Sooke Mountain trails, totaled just over 6 miles and 1,650 vertical feet.

From Seattle Times

Anne Beaumanoir, a French resistance member who guided Jews to safety in her Nazi-occupied homeland during World War II, then became an anti-colonial activist jailed in France for backing Algerian independence, and later earned distinction as a neurophysiologist specializing in epilepsy, died March 4 in Quimper, a city in her native Brittany.

From Washington Post

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